Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl

Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl delivers a treat as delicious as oatmeal cookies hot out of the oven - a memoir of a happy childhood. In charming and memorable vignettes Carol Bodensteiner captures rural life in middle America in the middle of the 20th Century. Bodensteiner grew up on a family-owned dairy farm in the 1950s a time when a family could make a good living on 180 acres. In these pages you can step back and relish a time simple but not easy a time innocent yet challenging. If you grew up in rural America these stories will trigger your memories and your senses releasing a wealth of stories of your own. If the rural Midwest is foreign territory to you Carols stories will invite you into a fascinating and disappearing world.